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Vaughn Aho Lauded Hijack Foiler's Home Def aceii Ik Fort Lauderdale Newg, Thrmday, July 6, 1972 After Ulster Protestant Threat British Create Unit TmProtect Catholics: Unit PrtM lattnuttoMl 1 PHOENIX, Ariz. The only way to reduce airliner hijackings is to order the ex tomorrow 'and tell his con gressman he would stay off until a (mandatory death penalty) law is enacted," Vaughn sail- "The economic impact ecution "without any loop- 4 K' holes" of all hijackers, of such amove should get tne cording to a pilot who helped law enacted. kill a hijacker in Saigon. "If they don't pass such a law, just spinning their United Press International BELFAST A Protestant threat of more barricades today prompted British authorities to create a public protection agency to combat intimidation against Roman Catholics living in mixed areas. A government spokesman said the agency would be open around the clock to hear complaints from people fearing sectarian harassment.

Sporadic gunfire broke out several times during the night and early today in West Belfast an army patrols reported two men wounded. A military spokesman said troops came under fire in at least five of the 17 shooting incidents, but no one was hurt. Catholics also reported increased intimidation of fami lies living in areas inhabited by both Protestants and Catholics. The Catholics cited an increased number of such incidents with the approach of the July 12 anniversary of the of the Boyne, a Protestant holiday, Catholic spokesmen also condemned Protestant plans to extend barricaded areas of Belfast and said it could only increase fears of Roman Catholics living in predominantly Protestant areas of the city. The parliamentary Ulster Defense Association (UDA) said yesterday it will establish another Protestant so-called "no go" barricaded sector in Belfast this weekend as another protest against British Army toleration of similar "no go" areas established by 3 Killed As Hijack Is Stopped AP WlraphM VETERAN ACTOR VICTOR S.

YUNG WOUNDED avoided death by tumbling out of seat Actor Shot But Escapes Death In Hiiack Gun Battle Roman Catholics in Londonderry. The UDA has set up five such areas since Friday in Belfast, Londonderry and Por-tadown. A UDA spokesman said temporary barricades would go up in other areas of Belfast this weekend and in one unspecified area they would be permanent. PEACE, GRACE The statement said that after the weekend, the UDA would observe a 14-day "peace and grace" period to allow the July 12 parades by the Protestant Orange Order to proceed. Such celebrations, marking the victory of Protestant forces led by King William III in 1960 have in the past set off some of the worst fighting between Roman Catholics and Protestants.

The army said a patrol came under sniper fire early today in the Protestant Spring-martin Estate. The soldiers did not return the fire but later reported more gunfire which they said they sumed to have been aimed into the adjacent Roman Catholic Ballymurphy district. The Coordination Center for Catholic Relief said that in the past week, 41 Roman Catholic families have moved out of Protestant areas, into Catholic neighborhoods where they feel safer. Protestant families have also moved out of Catholic neighborhoods. A truce between the Irish -Republican Army (IRA) and Protestant forces has been in effect since June 26.

A total of 403 persons have been killed in the three years of sectarian strife. GM Sets New Mark; Record Year Forecast Yung told newsmen shortly after surgeons removed' a slug from his left side at Peninsula Hospital. "They pulled the bullet out and showed it to me," he said, "I couldn't believe it." nanza" series. His other roles have included the master of ceremonies in the movie "Flower Drum Song." The chunky actor, who had been in Sacramento for sion interviews, said that at Unitid Prtu Intirnitlonal BURLINGAME, Calif. -Veteran actor Victor Yung, 56, wounded in the Pacific Southwest Airlines hijack attempt, said test night that he escaped death by tumbling out of his seat when the shooting started.

"Luckily I rolled over I was hit the back and the man. who was killed stood' Yung once played the "No. one point the passengers had Gene Vaughn, a Pan American jet captain, returned home yesterday after foiling the attempted hijack of his plane by a Vietnamese. He found home in nearby Scottsdale bad been vandalized, apparently in retaliation for his role in the hijacker's death. j.

Animal intestines, paint and broken bottles were poured into his swimming pool and a note, apparently written in animal blood, was pinned to the diving board. It read: "Kill S.O.B. pig Eugene Vaughn murderer Victory to the Vietnamese." Vaughn's only comment was that there was no way of knowing who was responsible, or if there were will be more such incidents. But he said he carried in his briefcase more than 100 let-, ters from people throughout the world "expressing gratitude and appreciation that someone had stood up to a hijacker." Vaughn grabbed the hijacker by the throat and held him while a passenger with a pistol shot and killed the Vietr I namese. Vaughn threw the dead man's body out of the plane onto the runway.

"It wasn't done in anger," Vaughn said. "The situation was so objectionable, the passengers had been subjected to such a terrifying experience, I felt it was an offense to tl human race and had to get the guy out of my presence." LAUDED Airport onlookers applauded Vaughn's statement. "A lot of time and effort has been spent on trying to prevent hijackings, but the only thing that will be effective is a mandatory death penalty for-any hijacker without any loopholes," Vaughn said. His said he did not think the one-day strike the Interna-tional Airline Pilots Union staged in some countries last month was strong enough action. "To make it effective, every 2 son" in the "Charlie Chan" been told over-the jetliner's movie He currently; intercom "We would be able has been portraying "Hop to leave the plane about 20 Sing" in the television minutes.

And a big cheer 5 went from', the. passen-; Continued from Page One) checked. Business prospects have never been American Motors also reporting yesterday, said its June sales were the best in eight years and for the January-June span were 19 per cent ahead of last year's first half: 133,218 vs. 128,312. GM sold a combined total of 2,936,963 vehicles in the first half of the current year, compared with a previous record of 2,844,122 set in last year's second half.

The auto giant reported a 6.7 per cent passenger car gain with 450,872 sales in June, compared with 422,409 for the corresponding month a year ago. The previous GM passenger car record of 436,117 was set in June 1970. GM's commercial vehicle sales were up 32.1 per cent for June: 106,922 against 80,958 in June of last year and an old record of 85,145 set for the month in 1970. lficixuyerii Yiciury (Continned from Page One) to be en route to San Diego with his wife. The wounded passengers, -reported in fair condition at the hospital, were identified as Leo A.

Gormley, 46, Van Nuys, and Victor Sen tYung, 56, a University City, actor who plays the Chinese cook in the TV series "Bonanza." "A shot rang out and Mr. Carter was hit in the back," said Vincent Rocco, Sacramento, who said he was sitting next to Carter. Rocco, speaking with tears in his eyes, said Carter had been asking him about retire- ment possibilities in Southern California. In San Diego, J. Floyd Andrews, the airline president, "The FBI took this out of our hands and directed the action.

They the aircraft and in the ensuing melee the hijackers were shot and the passengers injured." At the time Andrews did not know Carter had died. After landing, then taking off and circling San Francisco for an hour, the plane sat for five hours at the end of the runway while negotiations by radio continued and the money and materials were collected. DRESSED AS PILOT Under orders from the hi-: jackers, who sought an "international pilot," a FBI agent dressed as a pilot approached the plane carrying the money, Gebhardt and UpToHigh He added that not long the FBI agents came aboard and' tfie gun battle erupted. The actor was seated close to one of the hijackers when the plane took off from Sacramento. He said he could hear one of them talking to the stewardess and "I could see his gun." Yung, in an aisle seat, said the gunman told him, "move over, move over." each candidate received.

Chief Judge David L. Baze-lon and Judge George E. MacKinnon ruled all the California delegates should to to McGovern. They upheld Mc- (Continued from Page One) that "the First Amendment intends that political 'parties settle political disputes in their political forum." After the appeals court rul-i McGovern strategists Frank Mankiewicz and Gary Hart issued a count claiming the South Dakota senator has 1,541.5 delegates, more than the 1,509 needed for nomina S. Viet Paratroopers Take Quang Tri Citfs Airstrip Govern's argument that it was too late to change the ground rules after the primary was over.

If the party had banned winner-take-all primaries fore the California, primary, (Continned from Page One) tion. They called for peace him. The stewardess then told me to move and I moved out of the aisle seat." He was returning from taking part in a Charlie Chan Film festival when he was shot. Yung, has played the Chinese cook on the Ponder-osa ranch since the "Bonanza" TV series began in 1959. amone the bitterlv ouarrelinir the judges, "The can- saying they were i a have to unify the party." Xpaigned in a different man-f A UPI tabulation gave Mc- ner, devoting more or less Govern 1,396 firm, first-ballot time (and resources to the votes if yesterday's court de- state." Dilot in the United States would have to walk off the job Gardella, the airline's director, said.

I After stripping to his under- cisions stand, up. kv.U, WYVss jSiK.vM. showed another delegates, -V' Seniors Legal Aid Proposal OKd on orders from a hi-i jacker, the agent dressed again and went up the stair, ramp with his hands on his Nam WHltlnihin Bureau by Gurney, Florida Republi leaning lowara nim turn au.iu j. Tn2- '4 McGovern issued a mild statement saying he was "pleased" by the court decision, Last week, he denounced the credentials committee action as a "dirty, rotten political steal." 7 A spokesman. for Sen.

Hu explosives, the Command said. All the strikes hit within 100 miles of the DMZ. Forty-five bombers also supported the Qu'ang Tri drive today, the Command said. UPI correspondent Barney Seibert said the big bombers knocked out a suspected Communist'' position two miles sputb, of Quang Tri City and just north of the village of La Vang. Seibert said La Vang was a shambles littered with wrecked military vehicles.

Government army engineers were clearing them off the road. In Quang Tri Province today, South Vietnamese Marines fought a Communist force of undetermined size five miles east of Quang Tri City. They reported killing 23 North Vietnamese while suffering only one man wounded of their own. Today's 127 rounds that hit Hue exceeded the previous four-day total of 107. Military spokesmen said it was the first time since the 1968 Tet offensive the city had been htf as hard.

The North Vietnamese began shelling Hue Sunday -S four days after 20,000 of the city's 30,000 defenders were thrown into the drive to recapture neighboring Quang Tri Province. Fourteen persons have been killed and 45 wounded in the attacks. The first on Hue since the Communist offensive in the South began March 30. The attack begati after two South Vietnamese paratroop battalions and a tank company yesterday pushed into Quang Tri city, 32 miles north of Hue. Military sources said 1,200 soldiers in three hour3 moved the last half-mile from the suburb of Mai 'Linn to Quang Tri 'City.

They met only light resistance. WASHINGTON Senior citizens 55 and over who can't pay legal bills would get fed-eral assistance under Sen. Ed-. can, earmarks 20 per cent of funds for the Legal Services, Inc. for legal aid to oldsters who make up 25 per cent of they nevertheless are of critical importance to the senior citizens," Gurney said.

The earmarked funds would aid the oldsters pay for legal expenses for such actions as contract disputes, tenant-landlord hassles, wills and other legal problems, Gurney said. ward J. Gurnev's amendment the nation's noor. fo.the office of Economic On- While the leeal nrob- bert H. Humphrey, Mc- Govern's chief rival, said the portunity Act.

i of the elderly do not at- Humphrey camp was "con-. Passed by the Senate by a tract headlines because they fident that the final and su-v Vote of 82-1, the amendment are not exciting or glamorous, preme arbiter of seating of delegates and of the rules of FT the convention is the conven- 1 1. If Partly Cloudy jr uuii useu. However, in Sacramento, i Humphrey's top California ad-. Data From NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE, NOAA, U.S.

Dept. of Commerce mw ik. i head. In the meantime, three other agents had landed from a power boat in San Francisco Bay and approached the plane from its rear, where they could not be seen from inside. -At the last moment, they rushed up the stairway behind the negotiator, the FBI said.

One hijacker stood in the open door. Arthur Stone, Detroit, who had been visiting a sister in Sacramento, said she scarcely saw the hijackers, but realized soon after the plane took off to circle San Francisco a hijacking was in progress. She said she asked a stewardess where they were going. GOING NOWHERE "Nowhere, ma'am. We're just flying," was the reply.

"I knew we were in for it then," Mrs. Stone said. When the shooting started, she said, "I hit the floor and prayed hard." She said she heard a man across the aisle scream that he'd been shot. "I started to look up, but there were more shots, and I started to Mrs. Stone said.

"I just fell on the floor," Bill Corcoran, Sacramento another passenger, said. i "I was really bored," said 12-year-old Aaron Marcus of Sacramento, en route to San Francisco to visit his father. "I had read the airline magazine three times. But when visers said today they will oppose a convention floor fight over George McGovern's disputed delegates if the courts rule they should seated. "If the courts say some-thing is legal or illegal they prevail.

That's our system. Once the courts take jurisdiction over something they are the final arbiters," said Humphrey's chief California" fundraiser and adviser, Bev-' erly Hills attorney Eugene Wyman. Wyman contended the appeals court decision was "in error" because "The convention rules should be made by delegates and not judges." "Nevertheless," he. said, "the final decision is now in the hands of the courts. What-ever that decision is we will abide by it without rancor or recrimination." Asked whether that meant no floor fight, Wyman replied "That's correct." allied and Communist shells.

A command spokesman said Navy pilots from air-' craft carrier Hancock blasted an open storage area 11 miles north of Haiphong, North Vietnam's major port, setting off "two massive secondary explosions." Other Hancock pilots firing laser-guided ''smart" bombs hit a petroleum storage area 15 miles northwest of Haiphong and re- Eorted "a huge fireball that lasted to 1,200 feet." One Air Force F4 Phantom jet was hit by ground fire in the raids but the pilot jockeyed his plane out to sea where he and his bombardier-navigator ejected and were rescued about 38 miles east of Dong Hoi, 38 miles north of the demilitarized zone (DMZj separating the two Vietnams. Radio Hanoi monitored in Saigon claimed four planes were downed in yesterday's sorties. Navy pilots from the carrier Midway blasted the main runway of the MIG airfield at 4-syinh, a gulf port 164 miles 9oufh of Hanoi. Air Force pilots destroyed the 96-foot Vu Chua Railroad bridge 38 miles northeast of the North Vietnamese capital and only 15 miles from the Chinese border, spokesmen said. A command communique said other Midway pilots reported four explosions after hitting the Nam Dinh petroleum storage area 28 miles southwest of Haiphong.

They also reported knocking out four barges moving on rivers within 14 miles of the port city. The communique also said the raiding warplanes "three logistical cuts in enemy lines of communication and 66 secondary explosions and 58 fires were observed." Air Force B52 bombers hit North Vietnam targets today with 600 tons of vChrysler Asks Price Increases (Continued from Page One) bly be requested later be-cause of increases of labor and material costs which will before the 1973 models are introduced in late September. "The commission would not let us anticipate any economic cost increases that will become effective after July 31," Hilder said. "In August, we are going to start getting some additional higher costs, and will need relief." American Motors Corp. asked the commission for a 4.9 per cent price increase on its 1973 models last week.

That hike would average about $150 among its passenger cars and jeep vehicles. i Figures Shew Lew Temperaturei Expected! Until F'Woy Morning 70 liololad Precipitation Not Indicated-Consult local Fortcatt BitJkiaJ', State i ITThe Natldn Fischer Offers Penitent Apology Continued from Page One) Icelanders, "the thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United States," However, Fischer brushed aside a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival. He said this "would place me at a tremendous handicap" and he didn't believe the "world's champion desires such an advantage in order to play me." "I know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman, and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with you," Fischer concluded. Earlier Euwe had met other demands the Russians made on him and suggested that the start of the match be delayed further. Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, said he didn't penalize Fischer for his late arrival in Iceland because the American challenger is "living in another world." He said Spassky, the Russian world title holder, was "very upset" and that he would like to give him another week before the first game.

STRICT ENFORCEMENT Euwe also admitted he had violated the rules in allowing two previous postponements in the start of the match. He promised strict rule enforcement in the future. The 24-game series between Fischer and Spassky had been scheduled to start Sunday. Fischer stayed in New York, holding out for more money, and Euwe postponed the start of the match until Tuesday. Fischer arrived that day, but the Russians objected to his conduct and Euwe put the start off until today.

Fischer apologized yesterday for delaying the start of the match, but the Russians demanded apologies in writing. Then they demanded that Fischer forfeit the first game. Award of the first game to Spassky would give him a 1-0 advantage at the outset, but chess experts said that in such a long match Fischer probably would overcome the disadvantage. A player gets one point for winning a game and half a point for a draw. Spassky needs 12 points to retain his title, Fischer 12.5 to take it away from him.

The winner is to get $231,250 and the loser $168,750, the highest amounts ever paid in chess. The original purse was $125,000, with the winner taking five-eighths and the loser the remainder. But Fischer's holdout brought a $125,000 contribution from London banker and chess enthusiast James D. Slater to double the purse. Each player also gets $75,000 from the television and film rights.

Partly cloudy through tomorrow with scattered mainly afternoon thundershowers. Highs 85 to 95. Low tonight mainly in 70s. Partly cloudy through tomorrow with a few thunder-showers. High tomorrow near 90.

Low tonight mid 70s. Variable mostly southeast 10 mph. a.m. Baromctar (Inchti) 30.10 Humidity (Par cant) too Wind Vtloclty (mph) Calm LPrec. Anchorage, Alaska, was ont of tha warmait citlea In tha nation aarly today aa a large arctic air masa covered most of tha nation with dry but unseasonably cool weather for tha third day in a row.

Tha coot air penetrated as far south as tha Gulf Coast and as far east as tha Atlantic. Tha edges of tha cool air mass were marked by scattered thunderstorms through the Rockies and along tha Eastern Seeboard. i The long heat wave continued unabated in the Southwest, where daytime temperatures near the 1204eeree mark, or higher, have been recorded In soma places for tha past week. Free. Atlanta 42 Birmingham 74 54 Boston 64 58 .01 .01 Apalachlcola Iilamorada Jacksonvllla Kay Wart Orlando Tallanatiaa Tampa Wast Palm Baacti 71 It 4 It i.i.

4 71 17 Tamparaturai Ft. Lauderdala Plantation Hollywood the shooting started I was frightened to death. I started shaking and crying." Marcus said he saw a stewardess slip off her wed-. ding ring just before the shooting and ask a woman passenger to take care of it if anything happened, i The two hijackers were de-. scribed as recent immigrants from Bulgaria.

Alexieff, married and a resident of Hay-Y ward, was described by neighbors and acquaintances as content with his life as a cab driver. Azmanoff was listed as a resident of San Francisco. His occupation was not immediately learned. Neighbors said he recently had married a divorcee with three children. The airplane crew was identified as: Capt Dennis Waller, San Diego; copilot Dick Peterson and stewardesses Linda Heath, Lorraine Adamski and Jacque NO FIGHT? Humphrey's California campaign manager, Joseph Cer-rell, also said, "I don't think the Democratic national convention could go against a decision by the U.S.

Supreme Court." The appeals court held up execution of its order until 2 p.m. EDT today to give the parties time to seek a stay of the order from the Supreme Court. Califano, in a statement issued at Miami Beach, said he would recommend that the convention abide by the lower court decision if that remains "the law of the land." Under California's winner-take-all rules, McGovern picked up the state's 271 delegates by winning the June 6 primary. The credentials committee, however, overturned this winner-take-all provision and decreed the delegates should be apportioned on the basis of the percentage of popular vote Buffalo 47 54 .46 PHASES OP THI MOON Charleston, S.C 90 70 Chicago 64 57 Cincinnati 74 50 Cleveland 40 45 on Rainfall I 2 I IS Iff Ft. Laudardala 0 Plantation Hollywood 0 TIDE DATA Today Bahia Hllliboro Mar Inltt a.m.

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